Monday night, but I skipped gaming. I’ve gotten spoiled by the usual nice New Mexico weather, and tonight’s snow, ice and single digit weather forecast induced me to stay home rather than venture across town for the usual Monday night gaming.
So for a spot of amusement, I thought I’d list the games I own that refer to bad weather…
A Few Acres of Snow – And in my opinion, a crackin’ good game!
Der Untergang von Pompeji – Okay that’s a stretch!
Snow Tails – And I will admit, I don’t quite get what a “snow tail” might be, except perhaps the thing the driver of the sled might see!
Tyranno Ex! – Okay this is actually about climate change, and the title doesn’t really refer to the weather, per se… but I’m running out of candidates!
Huh – turns out I don’t have much in this zone. I did check out Meteo (also known as Wind und Wetter), which would have qualified. But as it happened I didn’t like that game enough to keep it.
So it would seem that generally speaking we are reduced to complaining about the weather, but not really doing anything (in a game) about it!
December 6, 2011 at 2:02 pm |
I am reading all of your bistronomies. They are a brilliant welcome diversion from the daily grind.
– I have too many games. I know this because for several weeks I’ve been packing them into boxes and this weekend I moved them to another house, where there is by no stretch of the imagination enough room for them. This produces in me an exquisite psychic pain.
– But, that means that I can play the game of weather games too:
I own:
–> weather in the title:
A Few Acres of Snow: Yes, as wonderful as you note
Fimbulvetr: Winter of Winters: games design rarely gets any simpler than this
Ice Flow: based on true story about a man trying to walk around the world!
Mermaid Rain: teenage mermaids trying to win the favor of Justin Bieber by recovering treasures from the sea.
–> weather in the mechanics or theme:
Kayanak: you poke holes in (paper) ice with a stick, then fish (with a magnet on a string and stick) for (ball bearing) fist. With a little touch of weather control thrown in.
The Swarm: based on a best-selling German SF book, soon to be a major motion picture (maybe), you get to throw hurricane storms at your opponents.
Evo: the changing weather patterns of primordial earth keep your nascent dinosaurs hopping up-n-down through ecological zones.
Mush, and Snow Tails: Two dog sledding games!